April 9th, 2025 Security Briefing with IANS Faculty ⁠⁠⁠⁠Jake Williams⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠Jessica Hebenstreit⁠

This Episode Details:

EU Companies Exploring Alternatives to US Cloud Providers - WIRED reported that some EU companies are exploring ways to de-risk their involvement with U.S. cloud providers by looking at alternatives to Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

More Cuts at CISA - Reporters at Politico (among others) are reporting additional staffing cuts coming to CISA imminently. Some reports detail expectations of as many as 1300 of CISA's 3300 remaining staff to be cut.

Novel Supply Chain Bug Bounty - In February, Roni Carta (aka Lupin) published a post-mortem on a bug bounty that involved a complex supply chain attack. The impact was so severe that the organization paid Carta and his partner Snorlhax $50k for the report

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